Boot and shoe heel



(ModeL) T. SMITH.

Boot and Shoe Heel. No. 236,464.. V Patented Jan. 11,1881.

lilllllllllllllllllllll ll Illll UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ THOMAS SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT AND SHOE H EEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,464, dated January 11, 1881. Application filed October 8, 1880. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS SMITH, of Boston, in the county of Sufiblk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Boot and Shoe Heels; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in boot and shoe heels; and the invention consists in providing the heel with a central block of rubber having an end flange for interlocking with the heel proper, whereby such block is held in place within a recess in the heel, and forms a part of the treading-surface of the latter, all as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings the present invention is illustrated, Figure 1 being aside elevation of a, gaiter-bootlwith a heel of my improved construction in vertical section; Fig.2, a horizontal section through the heel, and Fig. 3 a side view of the cushion or pad.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary gaiter-boot, to which B is the sole and O the heel. This heel O has a hole, a, through its thickness, within which hole is a block, cushion, or pad,D, of india-rubberorgutta-percha, either pure or in any of its elastic compounds, pure rubber, however, being preferable. This pad D projects at the treading-face of the heel and makes, to the extent of the area of its projecting end b,a part of the treading-face of the heel. Within the thickness of the heel this of the heel, which surrounds its projecting end.

If desired, the heel may be provided with several blocks D,in lieuot' one; but if the one be made of a suitable size it is sufficient for all the practical purposes of the invention.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

In boots and shoes, the heel C, having a block or cushion, D, of india-rubber or guttapercha, which forms a part of the treadingsurface of the heel and is secured Within the heel by the interlock of flange E with the body of the heel, all substantiallyas described, for the purposes specified.

October 6, 1880.

THOMAS SMITH.

Witnesses:

FRANKLIN FISKE HEARD, GHAs. R. BRAINARD. 

